Long-gone East End London

Back Garden Cabaret, June 28, 1935

Two young ballet dancers, Violet Hutchinson aged 8 and Betty Putt aged 7,
rehearsing in a back garden in Poplar, east London. Despite a lack of space,
children played in the streets and backyards often improvising with anything
lying around – the only limit being their imaginations.

All of the photos in this gallery are shown in the Getty
Images Gallery's EAST exhibition, on display at Westfield
Stratford City, London, from Feb 10 - March 18, 2012, and were hand
selected from Getty Images' archive of over 80 million images. Spanning from
the very early 1900s onwards, many of the images are rare; the exhibition
will mark the first time some of them have been publically displayed.